Collection: “Portraits of an unknowable world”

This NFT is a part of a series of landscapes generated from artificial vision algorithms and neural networks (GAN) trained with paintings of landscapes from the 18th and 19th centuries, the results are subjected to generative processes through software developed to measure by the author, who analyzes each of its pixels, organizes them into arrays of colors and locations on the image plane, reconfigures them and iteratively mixes them by color layers generating new results.

Heliodoro Santos Sánchez (Colima, México, 1984)

Artist and Researcher who develops his work from a poetic approach to information, society, technology and audiovisual media, he was a beneficiary of the FONCA Young Creators program in the area of ​​New Technologies 2012-2013 and 2017-2018.

His research-production work has been selected in various forums, congresses, festivals and biennials such as FILE in Rio de Janeiro and ISEA 2012 Machine Wilderness, he has exhibitions in venues such as Arts Santa Mónica in Barcelona, ​​Fundación Telefónica in Lima, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, the Crystal Palace in Guayaquil, at the Cultural Institutes of Mexico in Miami and Washington and Hunter College in New York, in addition to the Ex Teresa Arte Actual, the Centro Cultural Border, the Faculty of Music of the UNAM and the Multimedia Center in Mexico City. He was the winner of an Artist Award at the Biennial of the Borders in 2015 and the PAPIAM 2012 of the CENART Multimedia Center. He has participated in artistic residencies in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland and El CMMAS in Morelia, Mexico.

He has recently held various exhibitions in Mexico at Pared Space, La Fábrica de ToplapMx and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Querétaro.

Collection: “Portraits of an unknowable world”

“El paisaje como memoria, la memoria como un lugar a donde ir” by Emmanuel Martínez is an NFT created with a Photo archive with a BigGAN network and original music created for the piece. The landscapes are a poetic invitation to memory and place, thinking what time means for the creation of memories.

Emmanuel Martínez (Guadalajara, 1989)

Originally from Zapopán, Guadalajara, he moved to Oaxaca from a very young age, where nature became a fundamental theme in his early artistic production, as well as contemplation in solitude. Son of a sound engineer, music has been another fundamental part of his creative development.

Initially, he studied Systems Engineering at Anahuac, deciding halfway through his degree to dedicate himself to Television Production, and finally to study Design and Visual Communication at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM, specializing in Production and Multimedia, complemented with subjects in the CUEC. As a teacher, he has taught the Photographic Eye class at the Anáhuac Oaxaca.

He currently specializes in XReality Production as well as animation for Augmented Reality. He recently founded Maremoto, a multimedia laboratory that builds bridges between technological speculation and the creative industries.

The topics he investigates are the body and identity based on new Multimedia experiences as well as the ontology of virtuality, although his field of work is wide, since it ranges from Programming, Post-photography, Conceptual Art, Drawing, Video art and ePerformance. He is currently working developing Smart Contracts in Ethereum and Polygon for Solimán López's Harddiskmuseum.

Collection: “Portraits of an unknowable world”

“Winged Smartphones” by Alonso Cedillo
Disco Diffusion + CLIP
0 min 35, 2022

Alonso Cedillo (México, 1988)

He is a Mexican artist whose work develops in different media such as painting, sculpture, video, printmaking, virtual reality and software programming, engaging the public in a physical reality that makes no difference between the real and the virtual. He is one of the groundbreaking latin american artists exploring post-internet art and the relation of computer screens, the Internet and nature on a contemporary life of the XXI century.

Since 2008, his production explores the relationships we establish by connecting to the Internet on a daily basis, emphasizing the economic and social aspects of the Internet. Cedillo’s work portrays and sculpts information displayed on screens, and uses programming itself to open the way to an awareness of how the Internet influences our daily lives. For Cedillo his works are too analog to be electronic, and too electronic to be analog, which, of course, is the reality of our existence. Because of that, traditional brewing methods have remained present in the production of it, as well as in the avant-garde forms of the Internet.

Graduated from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda", his work is part of private collections in Mexico, the United States, Colombia, Argentina, Austria and the United Arab Emirates. He exhibited at the NRML Festival in Monterrey (2013) and presented work at Donaufestival (2013) and Transitio MX (2015) by Fran Ilich.

Collection: “La Fuente es el Sol".

These pieces are videos of small sculptures being activated with the sun, creating for the photographic lens a sparkle only visible in video. This silver lining is also an invitation to feel the sacredness of light as a gesture of contemplation and encounter with oneself. This Votive Lamps are also sun amulets, which in their mobile gesture show the desire to create a space for joy, wonder, ecstasy of being and its environment. They are rays of God, they are Divine instruments.

Clara de Tezanos (Guatemala, 1986)

Guatemalan artist and curator who studied photography early in Paris. In 2009, she co-founded the Center for Contemporary Photography, La Fototeca and the International Photography Festival GuatePhoto. As director of La Fototeca, she has curated national and international exhibitions, directed editorial projects and has been a teacher for more than 10 years. She has participated as chief curator for the GuatePhoto Festival, Fototropía Gallery and Espacio Satélite. Her work has been exhibited in collective and individual exhibitions both locally and internationally. In 2018, De Tezanos published the book Piedra-Padre, Universo receiving numerous awards from renowned international competitions like the Aperture & Paris Photo First Book Award, along with her solo exhibition at La Erre in Guatemala City. In 2019, she published the book Por Maniobras de un Terceto which was shortlisted for PHotoESPAÑA 2020 Best Photography Book of the Year and Rencontres d'Arles 2020 Book Awards. She presented a solo exhibition at La Nueva Fábrica in Antigua Guatemala, followed by a collective exhibition at La Fábrica Madrid in Spain.

Today, Clara continues creating images in photography but is now interested in constructing larger projects that include video, sculpture and poetry. Her recent work has shifted to the construction of objects and sensorial sculptures that capture light, color and sound to convert spaces into holy experiences of the present.

Collection: “La Fuente es el Sol".

These pieces are videos of small sculptures being activated with the sun, creating for the photographic lens a sparkle only visible in video. This silver lining is also an invitation to feel the sacredness of light as a gesture of contemplation and encounter with oneself. This Votive Lamps are also sun amulets, which in their mobile gesture show the desire to create a space for joy, wonder, ecstasy of being and its environment. They are rays of God, they are Divine instruments.

Clara de Tezanos (Guatemala, 1986)

Guatemalan artist and curator who studied photography early in Paris. In 2009, she co-founded the Center for Contemporary Photography, La Fototeca and the International Photography Festival GuatePhoto. As director of La Fototeca, she has curated national and international exhibitions, directed editorial projects and has been a teacher for more than 10 years. She has participated as chief curator for the GuatePhoto Festival, Fototropía Gallery and Espacio Satélite. Her work has been exhibited in collective and individual exhibitions both locally and internationally. In 2018, De Tezanos published the book Piedra-Padre, Universo receiving numerous awards from renowned international competitions like the Aperture & Paris Photo First Book Award, along with her solo exhibition at La Erre in Guatemala City. In 2019, she published the book Por Maniobras de un Terceto which was shortlisted for PHotoESPAÑA 2020 Best Photography Book of the Year and Rencontres d'Arles 2020 Book Awards. She presented a solo exhibition at La Nueva Fábrica in Antigua Guatemala, followed by a collective exhibition at La Fábrica Madrid in Spain.

Today, Clara continues creating images in photography but is now interested in constructing larger projects that include video, sculpture and poetry. Her recent work has shifted to the construction of objects and sensorial sculptures that capture light, color and sound to convert spaces into holy experiences of the present.

Collection: “La Fuente es el Sol".

These pieces are videos of small sculptures being activated with the sun, creating for the photographic lens a sparkle only visible in video. This silver lining is also an invitation to feel the sacredness of light as a gesture of contemplation and encounter with oneself. This Votive Lamps are also sun amulets, which in their mobile gesture show the desire to create a space for joy, wonder, ecstasy of being and its environment. They are rays of God, they are Divine instruments.

Clara de Tezanos (Guatemala, 1986)

Guatemalan artist and curator who studied photography early in Paris. In 2009, she co-founded the Center for Contemporary Photography, La Fototeca and the International Photography Festival GuatePhoto. As director of La Fototeca, she has curated national and international exhibitions, directed editorial projects and has been a teacher for more than 10 years. She has participated as chief curator for the GuatePhoto Festival, Fototropía Gallery and Espacio Satélite. Her work has been exhibited in collective and individual exhibitions both locally and internationally. In 2018, De Tezanos published the book Piedra-Padre, Universo receiving numerous awards from renowned international competitions like the Aperture & Paris Photo First Book Award, along with her solo exhibition at La Erre in Guatemala City. In 2019, she published the book Por Maniobras de un Terceto which was shortlisted for PHotoESPAÑA 2020 Best Photography Book of the Year and Rencontres d'Arles 2020 Book Awards. She presented a solo exhibition at La Nueva Fábrica in Antigua Guatemala, followed by a collective exhibition at La Fábrica Madrid in Spain.

Today, Clara continues creating images in photography but is now interested in constructing larger projects that include video, sculpture and poetry. Her recent work has shifted to the construction of objects and sensorial sculptures that capture light, color and sound to convert spaces into holy experiences of the present.